The 236th day of 2025 is today, Sunday, August 24. The year has 129 days remaining.
Hurricane Andrews struck Florida on August 24, 1992, killing 65 people and causing over $26 billion in damage in the Bahamas, Louisiana, and Florida.
When British soldiers stormed Washington, D.C., in 1814 during the War of 1812, they set fire to the White House, the Capitol, and other major structures that were still under construction.
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Congress enacted legislation establishing the Alaska Territory in 1912.
Amelia Earhartem became the first woman to fly solo, nonstop, from coast to coast in 1932 when she took out from Los Angeles and arrived in Newark, New Jersey, after a 19-hour voyage.
The North Atlantic Treaty became operative in 1949.
The Communist Party was made illegal in the US in 1954 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act.
Mark David Chapman was found guilty of killing John Lennon in 1981 and given a sentence of 20 years to life in prison in New York.
Pete Rose was barred from the game in 1989 by Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti (pronounced “juh-MAH-tee”) for placing bets on his own team, the Cincinnati Reds.
A Declaration of Independence for the state of Ukraine was approved by Ukrainian MPs in 1991 in reaction to a coup attempt by hardline Communist leaders seeking to regain control of the Soviet Union.
Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006 after the International Astronomical Union ruled that it was no longer a full-fledged planet.
Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in jail in 2012 after a Norwegian court found him guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder in connection with the July 22, 2011, attacks that claimed 77 lives. His sentence might be extended for as long as he is deemed a danger to society.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona passed away the day after his family disclosed in 2018 that he had stopped receiving medical treatment for an aggressive kind of brain cancer.
Police in Aurora, Colorado, used a chokehold to subdue 23-year-old Black male Elijah McClain in 2019 after receiving a complaint of a suspicious individual. On the way to the hospital, he suffered a cardiac attack and was later pronounced brain dead and removed from life support.
During a visit to the convention city of Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2020, Republicans formally nominated President Donald Trump for a second term. Trump told delegates that the only way they could stop us from winning this election was if it were rigged.
- Composer-musician Mason Williams is 87.
- R&B singer Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) is 83.
- WWE co-founder Vince McMahon is 80.
- Author Paulo Coelho is 78.
- Actor Anne Archer is 78.
- Author Alexander McCall Smith is 77.
- Composer Jean-Michel Jarre is 77.
- Author Orson Scott Card is 74.
- Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is 73.
- Actor Kevin Dunn is 70.
- Former Arkansas governor and political commentator Mike Huckabee is 70.
- Actor-writer Stephen Fry is 68.
- Actor Steve Guttenberg is 67.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. is 65.
- Actor Jared Harris is 64.
- Talk show host Craig Kilborn is 63.
- Actor Marlee Matlin is 60.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Reggie Miller is 60.
- Film director Ava DuVernay is 53.
- Actor-comedian Dave Chappelle is 52.
- Actor James D Arcy is 51.
- Actor Carmine Giovinazzo (jee-oh-vihn-AH -zoh) is 52.
- Actor Alex O Loughlin is 49.
- Author John Green is 48.
- Actor Chad Michael Murray is 44.
- Actor Rupert Grint is 37.
- Basketball player Kelsey Plum is 31.
